1800.] 
On aoc of HAIR. 
OFT have I heard, that *midft each bower, 
To guard with care the opening flower, 
A fairy hoft prefide : 
Some cull the honey’s neétar’d dew, 
Others improve the violet’s blue, 
And pour the healthful tide. 
Some, where the limpid ftreamlets play, 
Colle& the fweete* flowers of May ; 
Some bid the fountains flow 5 
Or when the torrid months opprefs, 
Each cool retreat with beauty drefs, 
And fragrant Zephyrs blow. 
» Amidf the cavern’s awful cell,. 
Or on the bold romantic dell, 
Some arduous labours ply: 
To ocean’s boundlefs depth repair, 
Tend on the living corals there, . 
And give the varied dye. 
Light floating on the ambient air, 
The human race with foft’ring care 
A gentle train attend : 
With caution watch each rude attempty 
With downy pinions ill prevent, 
And kind affiftance lend. 
Ye genial Sprites, an envied race, 
Who guard my Laura’s matchlefs grace, 
Weep not the trefs I’ve torn 5 
Weep not thofe flowing locks to part, 
For, cherifh’d next my glowing heart, 
The much-loved treafure’s worn. 
How oft I view its eafy fold, 
Its beauteous tint, outvieing gold ! 
How oft her charms pourtray ; 
Each bleaded feature, chalte, refin’d, 
‘The faithful index of a mind 
Pure as the new-born day. 
Liverpool, ‘fune 10, i8oo. 
Bike 
——L a 
PROLOGUE to the GENTLE SHEPHERD.* 
SAY, ghost of Ramfay! doft thou hover 
nigh, 
And o’er this manfion caft a placid eye? 
Departed {pirit ! doft thou view ferene 
Our humble fhepherds tread the mimic fcene? 
* Lately aéted at Langholm, for the bene- 
fit of the poor of the parifh, Daring the firt 

om 
Literary and Philifephical Intelligence. 
Az 
By Nature fchoold, and fchool’d by her 
alone, 
They lowly bend before the critic throne: 
No kindly lore hath taught the fimple fwaia 
To ope the fecret fource of joy or pain, 
To fpeak with matchlefs eloquence of eye, 
And bid wild paffion’s train advance or fly : 
Yet, warm’d by manly zeal, they mount the 
ftage, 
T’ unfold a tale that charm’d a former age. 
Ye nymphs and fwains that graced the flow- 
ery meads 
Where wocd-crown’d Eijk his amber waters 
{preads, 
O wipe from forrow’s cheek the falling dew 
To you the fons of Want their plaint renew. 
Full oft your ears have heard their whifper’d 
prayer, 
And oft your hands remov’d their load of 
care. 
When mode Worth in fecret forrow pin’d, 
And far from every joy his head reclin’d 5 
When pale difeafe had dim’d the orphan’s 
eye, é 
Or hoary Age retir’d to droop and die 5 
Then gentle pity ever fway’d your breaft, 
And, bleffing others, you yourfelves were 
blett ! 
Again the balm of kind relief impart, 
And glad with timely aid the aching heart. 
Lo! Famine treads the Caledonian ftrand, 
And waves her banner o’er the proftrate 
land 5 
Behold! Laponian fnows inveft the hill, 
Laponian frofts the aged bofom chill 5 
Smote by the fcowling blaft, the poor mat 
lies, 
And turns to you his meek-imploring eyes. 

night of the reprefentation, the houfe was fo” 
much crowded, that the floor began to give 
way. Fortunately, however, no perfon was 
materially injured, though a fcene of incon- 
ceiveable confufion enfued. The damages were 
immediately repaired, and the performance 
_ proceeded without further interruption, The 
fame play was aéted three different nights, 
and always before a numerous audience. 


VARIETIES, Lirerary AND PHILOSOPHICAL, 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domefiic and Foreign. 
*..* Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 

“YT \OCTOR WALCOT (Peter Pin- 
dar) has it in contemplation to 
publith atreatife on the general caufes of 
deafnefs, with the modes of cure. Such 
a publication is certainly a defideratum, as 
no minute and fatisfactory hiftory of the 
complaints of the ear has hitherto made 
ifs appearance. 
The fame gentleman, under his celebrat- 
“se 
% . Onn 
ed name of PETER PINDAR, is preparing 
for fpeedy publication, “ A Little Lath 
for a Little Lyar; or, a Cut at a Cobler,” 
addreffed to Mr. W. Gifford, in reply to 
his late pamphiet. 
A learned work is in great forwardnefs 
from the claffical pen of Mrs. THOMAS, 
daughter of the late Doctor Parkhurft. 
Mis. Ropinsos has completed a vo- 
ips 
